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Most of the webmasters put in a great deal of energy and time in developing
quality content for their web site. But they are not aware of thousands
of other webmasters who are using content from their web sites without
permission.

The problem of online copyright infringement is a growing phenomenon.
The ease and extent of infringement is greatly facilitated by the nature
of web.

Webmasters can use the major search engines to check whether someone
has stolen content from their site. For each search, they should carefully
review the first two results pages. Here, we discuss some of the measures
to safeguard your web content:

1. Place a Copyright Remark

You must demonstrate your copyright notice on each page of your web
site. This notice should have the year of publication and also the
name of your firm. This information could also be displayed in a graphic
pasted in the footer of the page, eg.

Active Venture Pte Ltd. All rights reserved.

2. Register with the U.S. Copyright Office

You may also register your web site with the U.S. Copyright Office.
Even if you don't register, still you will get protection, but in that
case you will have to collect evidence against the content thief.

You have to register your site with the U.S. Copyright Office within
three months of its launch.

3. Action to be taken against online thieves

You should send them a strong mail telling them to stop their copyright
infringement activities.

If they continue to violate copyright, send a mail to their ISP,
credit card company, webhosting company, and the domain name registrar.

If nothing happens even after you have taken these steps, contact
your lawyer for further advice to take legal action against the culprits.

Apart from the above mentioned measures, there are some simple tricks
to prevent online thieves from lifting content from your web site:

1. Disable right click

You can use JavaScript to disable the right click of your mouse.
But this method can be annoying for the sincere visitors to your site.

There are several softwares to prevent users from seeing your source
code. These softwares invoke a JavaScript function 'unescape' which
'encodes' the HTML coding into a long series of characters. However,
it can still be easily decoded to HTML using another function of JavaScript.

3. Use PDF files.

More usage of password-protected PDF files would prevent people from
blatant copy and paste of your web content. Although the more experienced
thieves could make use of several password recovery softwares available
to break through the protected PDFs and copy the content.

4. Conversion of text to images

This solution takes a lot of time and the size of pages also get
increased but is a fool-proof solution for copy-paste problem. But
if someone is determined on lifting content from your site, then no
one can stop him from re-typing the content.

5. Using Java/Flash

If your images are embedded in Java Applets or Flash, it is very
difficult for online thieves to copy them.

Here again, the more experienced thieves will take a 'print screen'
of your image, open it in paint and get way with it.

So, you could see that all these tricks would only prevent the new
thieves from copying content. The more experienced ones could always
come up with counter-measures for all these tricks.

To conclude, I would say that you should adopt one or more these
tricks/measures to reduce copyright violation and for the more experienced
thieves, you have to seek help of U.S. Copyright Office in taking legal
action against them.

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Free online content to make your web site sticky!

Depending on what you are reading, most sources state
that a person must see an offer somewhere between 3 and 10 times before
he or she will actually purchase.

And unless you are a master copywriter with expertise in forcing the
sale down your visitor's throats, chances are that you will need to
figure out how to get them back to your site for another visit, or
two, or three.

Of course, with the right targeting you can throw yourself in the path
of those that are ready to buy, and get the sale. But what about converting
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The best way to carry out this task is to figure out how to get your
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This requires a different set of skills. Skills that usually point
to that dreaded four-letter word that we all hate...WORK!

Its work because one of the items required to bring users back is fresh,
frequently updated content such as articles, reports, and tips. Finding
and keeping updated content on your site can quickly become a dreaded
chore.

In addition to fresh content on your site, you should produce a newsletter
for your visitors. A newsletter can be a very powerful way to get your
visitors to return to your site, and view your offers again. But, this
also can be a time consuming venture.

How do you accomplish these tasks if you fall into the "no time" category?

You familiarize yourself with a concept known as "syndicated content!"

This has become a very popular means for web site owners to offer fresh,
up-to-date information for their visitors...with minimal effort.

Basically, you find places that allow you to publish their articles,
reports, tips, etc. The usual exchange for this valuable content is
that you include the authors information at the end of the article
when you publish it.

Find a few decent sources and you can keep a newsletter going for a
long time, without having to strain too many brain cells in the process.

Taking this a step further, you can now find "dynamically updating
content." This is really neat because you put some code on one of your
web site pages, and the author automatically updates the displayed information
periodically for you!

This is very popular with news, stock information, weather, and sports
scores.

When your visitors know they can depend on you for new and updated
information, they will return often. They might even tell their friends
about you...which is even better!

Another necessary component of a web site that brings visitors back
is a sense of community.

Some popular forms of community are:

Discussion boards or forums Mailing lists Free email Chat Polls

Finding these items can definitely be a chore, especially if you are
on a tight budget and looking for low/no cost options.

To help you with these efforts I've created a comprehensive directory
of the best sources of free or almost free web site content.

In the directory you will find article resources, dynamic content,
and much more.

About
the Writer of this Article

Chuck McCullough is the owner of http://AffiliateMatch.com offering
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